harsh winter makes it even more enjoyable. and we're training to be a stump. to the small. show clips are on poxy. the un has imposed sanctions on libya as the violence continues in that country in a week that seen more protests across the arab world. also in this week's top stories your fear of turmoil in the arab world will be to a surge in uncontrolled immigration from the region with italy the first to feel the effects of an influx of refugees. plus as a u.k. court rules julian a son should must be extradited to sweden over sex crime elevations there we could leaks founder says it's a step towards his prosecution in the u.s. . and three other kind

a trio of characters are chosen as mascots for the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics after the results of the live t.v. vote across russia. were watching i'd be coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the u.n. has imposed sanctions on libyan leader colonel gadhafi and his inner circle freezing assets and restricting international travel it comes as violence continues to ravage the divided country in what's been the bloodiest of the uprisings in the air war old the latest developments we're joined now by our correspond in the region peter all of. peter there is no easing of the situation in libya as we can see so what more do we know about what's happening there at the moment. well the very latest is the sanctions that you mentioned these have been unanimously voted in by the u.n.

security council as he's mentioned will take the place of an asset freeze a ban on travel and arms embargo and also they will refer colonel gadhafi to an international criminal court for crimes against humanity you know that's a crucial topic that was passed by the u.n. security council on saturday over the past seven days we've seen violence flare across libya now the protesters the daffy forces if you will are in control of the majority of the country now they have their main foothold their base was the city of benghazi in the east of libya that from there they persuade across the country toppling the forces in all major cities apart from the capital tripoli now we're hearing that inside the capital tripoli that gadhafi forces procured affy forces have been handing out weapons to civilians and the majority of the citizens of. old tripoli are remaining indoors inside their homes in order to avoid

gangs of all the civilians that have been armed who have been setting up checkpoints there so there's a lot of violence continuing in the country we've also heard some some troubling audio commentary that came out of tripoli from. a lady who is inside the city now this came after the friday prayers where gadhafi delivered a message to his supporters in the country the protesters the protesters then took to the streets they were fired out by gadhafi forces killing many people there the number of dead straight would be well over a thousand in libya and the worry the most troubling audiotape describes a story of protesters fleeing to their homes being pursued by gunmen so they could be killed inside their own homes also stories coming out. we can't exactly call just yet but we are hearing from protesters that the bodies of the dead are being

buried very very quickly to cover up the atrocities that have been taking place in the country now prime minister russian crime is the blood of you have made a comment on the situation there and across the whole of the arab world suggesting that these countries that have had revolutions must be allowed to determine their own future. because. today we say we're concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african salvo qaeda is also concerned about what is happening in libya do you think this is a coincidence that i'd like to go back in history a little bit the former leader of the iranian revolution where did he live he lived in paris and there's a whole he was supported by the western community now the entire western community fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active and supported a democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and how much won't wash and immediately they declared hamas a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people

a chance to determine their future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take a natural way without any foreign interference to build their future. which those will peter as well anti-government protests have been raging elsewhere in the region throughout the week talk us through what's been going on there. well that's right we have seen some violent protests across the region in a rock on friday there was extremely violent demonstrations taking place in many cities across the country against the current regime the current government there in back then it is continued as well the most violent we've seen the largest flare ups seem to have been in the air and say a big part in yemen also suffering problems with violence on the streets in protest but if you get back to the most violent thing we have seen appears to be in tunisia which of course was one of the the first gulf the arab states first north african state to just throw off their dictator their leader followed by egypt now in two

days here we've seen many many people taking to the streets to protest against what they see as the incompletion of. the revolution if they wanted not just the figurehead of the dictator out they wanted the rest of the government out and that's resulted in violent clashes in tunis you resulting in deaths there now here in cairo a similar scene it must protest on friday here here square which was the epicenter of the revolution the talk of funds you will bartik no protesters will back out there on friday to call for the resignation the standing down of key members of the cabinet who were. former members of the mubarak regime. the current prime minister one person coming in for a lot of flak from the protesters they want him to stand down now those protesters were confronted by the military that are currently policing egypt at the moment they were asked to ted down their their tents that they were arresting and move on

in the evening they refused to do so they were apparently asked again before the military returned at two am on saturday morning here and fired shots in the air reportedly and then beat protesters with buttons so deeply the military later apologized on their facebook site but this is caused some on rest and created quite an uneasy air here in cairo. ok there thanks very much indeed for are monitoring the situation for us they are in the middle east our correspondent they are all over morning from hiero and we've been gathering a wide range of perspectives on the crisis unfolding in north africa and the middle east political journalist anthony while told r.t. that western countries are advocating the spread of democracy across the region to control the politics of it our world western style democracy in its current state is far from what i would consider to be something that we should want it any of

these countries i think i think if there's going to be democracy it should be democracy with a real change and a change that reflects democracy that actually benefits the people today's democracy is nothing more than a mainstream control mechanism through which the vast majority of the public who do not think are emotionally engaged in in situations that they don't even really realize what it is that they're voting for or approving and if you think that democracy which is supposedly what the u.s. is out there pushing and driving home for these people who need so much the philosophy of what they've developed and put together in the in the in the u.s. for example take a look at look at what you're doing in a building bases in hundreds of the over one hundred different countries you know basically putting at the end of a gun the word democracy and shoving it down their throats to me this is not democracy this is abuse this is nothing more than a system that is doomed to failure and as long as central banks continue to stand side by side in a democratic system like we have printing endless amounts of money which is devalued by evaluate by the minute we're not going to have anything more here than chaos that is used to mask that devaluation process and hopefully distract people

from the overall fraud that some perpetrated on western societies if that's democracy who'd want it down our share of the can analyst at the center of for global energy studies believes fears of turmoil in libya spreading across the region have caused the surge in oil prices. people in the financial markets have if year they look not at the present time there is a super sufficient oil in the mediterranean basin that say but they fear that this might expand there would be disruption etc etc and they think it is a few weeks not a few months ahead and if you for that is what has caused the prize go on i think the basic behind it is defeated that there will be a disruption of the supply of oil and so people who are in the market. and take positions for higher prices in order to cover themselves for a lie if it is only confined to suffering from libya they're all industry the world market can manage it with it he called me the difficulty of. disruption for

a few weeks or maybe a month or two meanwhile there are fears in italy it could buckle under the pressure of a possible influx of immigrants fleeing the trouble in libya and elsewhere thousands of people from unstable countries have already reached its shores in the last few weeks alone the government has estimated a possible one and a half million could try and secret refuge there as well as greece and malta artie's few workers cannot has a story. for the fifth eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of work it was a has relied on fishing and tourism for its main sources of income but for the first time in years the bolts on heaven that are drawing. the rest of us you can't work there always are here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with with the g.'s over five

and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees but gravel just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean island doesn't have all the brown many of those who need it have nothing to lose turning local life year on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases of battle isn't that just not thinking it would start to believe in the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the locals never used to lock their doors now that this people out here will feel uncomfortable due to it's vocational and you do these for merely with refugees but never so many in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say identifying genuine he says is one of the biggest problems. that we are historically a free nation and we want freedom of islam we want to live like

a prophet told us and will lead us to live in an islamic state. most are housed at this refugee center where they are provided with food water calls and medical aid all financed from the state budget is designed to house only around eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of refugees are flown to the mainland they are going to go off and we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day it's. tiny body and pollute. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which malls with the keys were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened i. put violence continues to spread in both north africa and the middle east it is already warned other evil states up to three hundred thousand refugees could be libya

a little more decades limpy those are managed to i mean i think maybe isolated world of it's all political when he still lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors all the. time so she sent the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there in the fully one this tiny island but the entire continent you want this i'm all for the one you know italy. has in ari from the danish answered for international study says the european union should bring in urgent measures to stop payment ration even before these. things the prospect of massive immigration has always been europe's wars tonight. in real terms it has never been substantial we have always been below thirty thousand. possible entries every year. clearly the overthrow of the governments poses

a whole different set of issues and what europe will be able to do it depends on the ability of actually cordin a thing among some of the governments that are most affected i mean imagine if in two months time coral gadhafi is not overthrown i mean business cannot proceed as usual after this so something will have to be done. now you're watching our show live from moscow still have for you this hour the end of an era for nasa. space is no longer a place for competition it's now ground zero for operate from the point remains is ever wanted here in the world ready for it will be accepted as some say determination of the u.s. space shuttle program is a mistake others insist there's nothing wrong with relying of russian rockets to get crews to the i assess. that on thursday a london court ruled julian assange should be extradited to sweden over sex abuse allegations so we can leaks founder who's to appeal says the court has failed to

even consider the details of the allegations against him describing it as a rubber stamping process are just killing ford looks into the background of the case. when julian assange emerged less than five years ago with this video. showing u.s. troops getting down unarmed civilians into reuters journalist video games he was not as a hero of transparency. in anti war ally and human rights defender r.t. america interview just such on the day of collateral murders leads what keeps people and more people. as you understand how the world actually works. in the fourth story is to get information about the real world and the second step is to comment on it and think about it but we need sources could get. through.

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that ultimately he can be extradited to the united states to face charges for the release of those documents or u.k. court ruled that julian assange should be extradited to sweden but his attorneys say the next stop for the thirty nine year old computer programmer could be here in the united states. as charges and even the death penalty as the sun spaces jail time the future of wiki leaks hangs in the balance and its ability to be a place for whistleblowers and it beacon of transparency and ford artsy busing to d.c. and we've got more on the story on our web site r t v dot com there is also plenty of other news and features let's have a look at what's online right now. an ambitious project to find out what the price tag is on the plan upgrade of the russian army as a budget for the next ten years he's unveiled plus. we'll ok our why nato continues to function twenty years after its initial enemy cease to exist .

america's longest serving space shuttle discovery has docked at the international space station it's said to be the ship's last trip to space as the u.s. retires it's quarter of a decade old fleet the shuttle deliver ten tons of cargo and scientific equipment to the i assess it's also presented a rare photo opportunity as six different spacecraft are docked at the i assess apart its return to earth it will be ferried off to a museum where it will soon be joined by its sister ships endeavor and atlantis affectively and to us spaceflight and as our viewers guided you can found out a loss isn't sitting too well with many americans. by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space according to obama's plane

responsibility will go to private companies which are expected to come up with cheaper ways to ferry astronauts to low earth orbit they know that they have a big step to take when they if they're thinking about putting humans into space and that's going to take a you know the next phase of their development so i have a. can even estimate exactly no one can say for sure when the private american companies will come up with a new spaceship for years to come it will be the russians so use that's going to be the only means for people to reach the international space station which is perfectly fine with the leaders of russia and the u.s. but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this how. we could make it to the moon earth to build this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're we're reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's sort of it it's so a wounded pride wounded clyde revealed itself in comments by some american

lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa official comedians in the u.s. did not miss out on poking fun at americans. so we pony up the cash then have to ride on the hope of the backseat take the wheel. yes you know you're not going to let us touch the radio you want to eat snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we left. you used to put those in nasa who now actually work with the russians like astronaut sunny williams have different sentiments i couldn't imagine when i was growing up walking through red square or going to a russian company and working hand in hand with my russian colleagues or going to their families homes and having dinner with them and likewise when they come to the u.s. and so i think. maybe we are competing but we're working together i think it's more

of a time of joint cooperation and learning from one another that's just as healthy as the competition that we had in the past it's not the first time americans have to rely on the russians to take their crew to space they depended on washing rockets during a two year grounding the u.s. spacecraft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy a nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its right with ya the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people constraints and now with the shuttle we carrying it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching the moon. in fact what was once a global competition is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the wires are saying space is

no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation but the question remains if there are words here in the us ready to accept it. are to watch the. russia's volatile north caucasus has been in the spotlight all week as a spike in militant activity raged in the republic of congo bill caria and a group of up to twelve militants simultaneously attacked several locations in the republic's capital of melchett on friday a few hours later several government shelled a gas station but an explosion was averted thanks to the fire crews quick arrival the incident caused some damage but no fatalities a turnaround from last week's dramatic attack on a tourist bus that left three people dead local authorities say the plots were an attempt to disrupt and tear forces from special operations in the mountains of the republic they say the situation is now fully under control. and after

a look at some other stories from around the world in the confirmed death toll from the earthquake in new zealand has risen to one hundred forty six with more than two hundred still missing residents across the country have said prayers for the dead and missing emergency services in christ church are working to clear wreckage from the city as officials warn that many buildings may have to be demolished the earthquake was new zealand's deadliest natural disaster in eighty years and is likely to become its worst ever. highlands opposition party has claimed victory in the country's general election counting is still ongoing but exit polls suggest the ruling party that have been dominant for decades is heading for a crushing defeat it's been widely criticized for wage cuts tax hikes and loss of financial sovereignty after last year's sixty seven billion euro bailout from the e.u. and i.m.f. viewed as a national humiliation. well there is usually just one russians have chosen three

characters to be mascots for sochi is twenty fourteen winter olympics a q polar bear a snow leopard and a figure skating body overcame some intense competition to win a live t.v. vote as our tuesday to lock you reports is just the beginning of the breathtaking take off for twenty four team. these are the first winners of the sochi olympics from now on a snow leopard a polar bear and a hare have won through to become the official mascots of the two thousand and fourteen winter games a ray of light and a snowflake will represent the paralympics he is the b.s. through on the prize winning places in any school students first second and third and the main moto of the olympics is that it's not victory because it's a patient force and the leopard be here and the band each have their strong points that's why i think creating a teen was a smart choice the winners were selected by members of the public permafrost russia and who televised on saturday the competition to devise them was also

a public outward be creations are the result of a nationwide competition launched last year with ideas submitted to a special website and brochures artists amateurs and professionals alike rushed to the challenge the election of the olympic mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these drawings here in sochi olympic information center eventually your games out of this stuff ten rate here these are the methods that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two bears snarly appointed father frost and the mayor of sochi is personal favorite of the ethanol scheme despite their cuddly appearance the competition between damascus was almost as unplanned as poorly big old traditional russian characters like father crossed melted in the heat of battle and didn't make the point of cart not even the make over with the latest winter sports where passion was enough to sweep

a rather hip set of russian mature shuttles to victory will be olympics have only one winner the competition organizers for the mascot settled on three we'll go with a night to commercial possibilities to see who's doing the breathtaking journey is ahead for all the symbols chosen for the games they're just making their first steps on the. and a peak of their popularity in two thousand and fourteen you can of course were counting on commercial success and since these mascots have been elected by a general vote yes and they were counting on everyone to be willing to buy souvenirs and other licensed products in which they are included which will help finance the games of the show with three years left on still be olympics so she will now have to get used to three new very honorary citizens at least one of them is no stranger to the southern russian city as for real snow leopards have recently found a new home at the local wildlife preserve the three winning best could have a hard act to follow in matching the worldwide fame one by misha their counterpart

for the 1980's small school lympics but still she will be hoping it will become just as love of welder the bosky are so cheap. i'm paying for half a day here in our team and i'll be back shortly with the week's top story favre that's .

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